Tape-condenser.



UNITE@ STATES PATENT FFIQE,

FRIEDRICH QUEISER, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO Gr.JOSEPHYS ERBEN, OF BIELITZ, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, A COPARTNERSHIP COMPOSED OF`GUSTAVE JOSEIHY AND SENDOR WEINSCHENCK.

TAlPE-CONDENSER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. *7, 1914.

Application led October 9, 1913. Serial N o. 794,264.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH QUEIsER, asubject of the Emperor of Austria-IIungary, residing in the city andcounty of Philadelphia., State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful Tape-Condenser, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved condenser for spinning longestaplematerial, such as cross-bred wool, alpaca, hair, tlaX and similarmaterial.

It further consists of such improved condenser in which each roving isseparately carried from the dividing rollers to the aprons.

It further consists of other novel features of construction, all as willbe hereinafter fully set forth.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detailone mechanical form embodying the invention, such detail constructionbeing but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of theinvention may be used.

In said annexed drawings-Figure l represents a diagrammatic elevation ofa condenser of the present type. Fig. 2 representis a diagrammaticelevation of a condenser embodying my invention. Fig. 3 represents adiagrammatic elevation of a slightly different embodiment of myinvention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, the reference letters 'I and T indicate thedividing rollers, around which pass the tapes, ift-41;, which convey therovings to the aprons, n passing around rollers, m, at said aprons.

In the form of condenser illustrated in Fig. l, which is the form now inuse, the rovings pass with the tapes from the dividing rollers overprimary guide rollers -J, in the same planes, and thence pass indifferent planes to the dividing rollers at the receiving ends of theaprons, so that the rovings following the diverging tapes will not bemixed with those of adjoining tapes, as is liable to happen with longliber stock, with which the fiber is liable to reach from one tape to anadjoining tape and thus pull the fiber from one tape to another,rendering the rovings uneven.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 2

and 3, and embodying my invention, the rovings follow the tapes, butsuch tapes alternately pass around rollers b-b and c-c, in differentalinement, whence they pass around rollers m, to the aprons, a. Therovings upon the tapes will thus leave the vdividing rollers atdifferent points of alinement and will not be liable to adhere to eachother.

As the rovings are liable to part from the tapes at the points betweenthe rollers c and m on the lower side of the machine, the tapes at thesepoints have either a full twist, as indicated at Z in Fig. 2, to retainthe rovings, or they have a one-half twist, as at e, and are carriedover rollers, fw, as illustrated in Fig. 3. In either case the rovingsare supported so that they cannot drop ofi' the lower tapes.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employedfor the mode herein explained. Change may therefore be made as regardsthe mechanism thus disclosed, provided the principles of constructionset forth, respectively in the following claims are employed.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a device of the character stated, dividing rollers, aprons,guide-rollers at the receiving ends of said aprons, tapes passing aroundsaid dividing rollers and guide-rollers, and primary guide rollers forsaid tapes and in close proximity to said dividing rollers and arrangedin different axial alinement.

2. In a device of the character stated, di viding rollers, aprons,guide-rollers at the receiving ends of said aprons, tapes passing aroundsaid dividing rollers and guide rollers, and primary guide rollers forsaid tapes and above and below said dividing rollers and in Contact withthe same and arranged in different axial alinement from each other.

3. In device of the character stated, dividing rollers arranged oneabove the other, aprons, guide rollers in proximity to the receivingends of said aprons, primary guide rollers arranged in different axialalinement above and below said dividing rollers and in contact with thesame, and tapes passed around said dividing rollers and guide rollers.

4. In a device of the character stated, a pair of dividing rollersarranged one above the other, aprons, guide rollers in proximity to thereceiving ends of said aprons, a plurality of rimary guide rollers abovethe upper dividing roller and arranged in dierent axial alinement, tapespassing around the upper dividing roller and the dierently alinedprimary guide rollers and one set of guide rollers near the aprons, aplurality of primary guide rollers below the lower di* viding roller andarranged in different axial alinement, and tapes passing around thelower dividing roller and the differently alined primary guide rollers,and a set of rollers near the feeding end of the apron and having theportions between the outer primary guide rollers near the lower dividingroller and the roller near the lower apron twisted.

FRIEDRICH QUEISER. Witnesses:l

MARION Orr, P. S. NoAR KLEIN.

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